See “Economist Deirdre McCloskey to visit Pomona College, by Sneha Abraham, Pomona College News, October 11, 2011. An assignment on Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World leads to an appearance by the author. Note: see for particulars on Prof. McCloskey’s appearances our Public Relations page.
An excerpt from “Teaching humans to be economists” (Diane Coyle in The Enlightened Economist, January 4, 2012): I’m winding down after a day’s lecture preparation by dipping into Deirdre McCloskey’s How to Be Human (Though an Economist), always enjoyable. The book fell open at her essay “Why Economics Should Not Be Taught In High School.” (more…)
Excerpted from “Economists Set Rules on Ethics” (by Ben Casselman for the Education Section of the Wall Street Journal, 9 January 2012): CHICAGO — A leading group of academic economists has adopted conflict-of-interest rules in response to criticism that the profession not only failed to predict the 2007-2008 financial crisis but may actually have helped (more…)
Excerpted from Timothy R. Homan in “Ethics Code Requires Economics Authors Disclose Financial Ties” for Bloomberg Businessweek, January 09, 2012: “It’s not like economics is leading the way; economics is following,” said Deirdre McCloskey, a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She said a code of ethics is “already commonplace in (more…)
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Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago;
and Professor of Economic History, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Susan B. MacDonald, Editor
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